“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Sand Dabs, Six"
Winter Hours (1999)
“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
The Dispensary, Canto IV, line 62.
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